Two Poems for the Beloved People of Gaza by Nahida Izzat
By Nahida Izzat • Jan 24th, 2008 at 13:26 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Music, Poetry, Events, Nakba and Right of Return, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance
Photo from Free Gaza, one of many photos of the people of Gaza.
Beloved people of Gaza
Treasured people of Palestine
Teachers of courage and dignity
Archetype of humanity
Allow me to kneel down
And wash your feet with my tears
Kiss your blessed hands
And sprinkle your beautiful faces with musk and roses
While we sat pondering like fools
Utterly helpless
Talking much and doing less
Going round and round in circles
Thinking how to help
What to offer you to relief some of your pain
As usual
Full of surprises, you come out to our rescue, to soothe our agony
You present us with the most precious gifts
Lessons in bravery
Steadfastness, patience, perseverance, defiance, resilience
Optimism against all odds
Creativity in the face of utter oblivion
You've demonstrated that you are the free ones we are the captives
You chose resistance over subjugation
You decided not to be enslaved
Not even to superpowers
Would we ever learn from you?
I Believe in Miracles
You can break my bones
My free spirit is invincible
You can cause me the loss of sight
The light of my insight
You'll never take away
In the shadows of darkness
Lies the corpse of your might
You can destroy my house
The windows of my hope,
You cannot break
The pillars of my faith
You can never shake
You can threaten me
With weapons of death
And mass destruction
Implanting fear in my heart
You cannot achieve
Nor can you cut off
My divine connection
With a missile
You can tear my body apart
My soul however
Is out of your reach
And is forever intact
You claimed victory in six days!
Victorious are those
With a dignified gaze
Facing tanks with tender flesh
And only with stones,
The F16 fighter blaze
You can never defeat my will to be
Because my power that you cannot explain
Grows from within the roots of my pain
You depend on the United States
For wealth and war supply
My infinite strength stems from
My creator, the One most high
Nahida is the author of many poems, prose and articles. Her site is http://poetryforpalestine.spaces.live.com/
Nahida Izzat is a Jerusalem born - Palestinian refugee living in exile for over 40 years. She was forced to leave her homeland, Palestine, at the age of seven during the six-day war. Nahida is mathematician by profession, a mother of 3 children by career, an artist by hobby, and a returned-refugee to a free Palestine by optimism, hopes and anticipation.
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Long live Palistine
Ghods is ours
Down with Zionism
wow! mashallah i loved the poem so much i posted it!
thank you vey much may allah grant you heven!!
Dear Nahida,
At peresent the unti humanist regime of Israel is doing a massacre in Gaza.But it is credulous to believe that Israel is committing such a savage crimes in Gaza without having pre agreement with its master, USA.
The cause of massacre of innocence people in Gaza, is the Israel which is supported and embodied by the regime that sits in Washington, America is today the leading state sponsor of terror. It sends hundreds million of dollars to terrorist around the world ?while its own people face with economic hardship at home.
It undermines hopes of many people who are seeking independence in Palestine Lebanon, Iraq ,Afghanistan by arming and aiding the terrorists such as Israeli , Alghaedeh and Taliban . It subverts the hopes for peace in all parts of the world by funding terrorist group to suppress all liberal people of the world who are seeking independence.
It seeks to intimate people of the world with atomic and ballistic missile which are ready to fire through its platforms in land stations and its warships which carried missile around the world.
It forces the United Nation and also Arab Governors to share its dark vision and brutal ambitions. It is going to cheats his own people and also people of the world by helping people of Africa for AIDS and Malaria to pretend humanism. But this regime will be vanquished very soon as all people of world, even people of America knows about the seditious and hypocrite face of this regime
We can not abandon the people of Gaza to Israeli terrorist regime, but we should find the root which is the USA regime.
The fight against the USA regime is the great humanistic struggle of our time. It is not related to specific ideology or specific nation, it is commitment of all nations seeking security of the world and international peace. The union of nations is the most powerful weapon against missiles, bombs of USA regime.
B.Wishes,
Mohsen